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Why would someone need to write their own instead of just running bind?
by Areading314 6y ago
Why would someone need to write their own instead of just running bind?
- bauerd 6y agoLearning how it works
- andris9 6y agoI built PendingDNS (https://github.com/postalsys/pending-dns https://github.com/postalsys/pending-dns) for a service I run mostly for two reasons: 1) no need to mess with zone files, all data is written to and read from Redis, so it is much easier to integrate 2) changes are always immediate, no need to reload server daemon, which means I can generate DNS based Lets Encrypt wildcard certificates really fast as there is no need to wait for “propagation”
- Areading314 6y agoVery cool!
- jlgaddis 6y agoWe're geeks and this is HN. "Need" is irrelevant and has nothing to do with it.
- kjs3 6y agoMonocultures are bad, for one. A diversity of implementations drives improvements. For example, at one time one could have said "...instead of just running sendmail?" for SMTP servers. But the emergence of things like exim, qmail and especially postfix resulted in better servers.